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Scoreboard, TV Towers Downed By Storm At Doral Golf Tourney

The main leaderboard is seen in pieces after high winds swept the golf course after play was suspended due to dangerous weather during the first round of the 2011 WGC- Cadillac Championship at the TPC Blue Monster at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa on March 10, 2011 in Doral, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

DORAL (CBS4) — It’s definitely not a golf day in South Florida. Strong gusts have suspended play at the Cadillac Championship, and destroyed the large manual scoreboard near the 18th green at Doral and toppled a TV tower into a pond behind the ninth green.

Players were removed from the golf course at 11:45 a.m. Thursday as a storm system approached.

Less than an hour later, a microburst sent the scoreboard crashing down. PGA Tour officials surveying the damage said it could not be repaired.

Two television towers toppled — one behind the eighth green, the other behind the ninth green — and the top of the tower was submerged in a small pond behind the ninth.

None of the structures would affect play, and the first round was to resume at 2:30 p.m.